* Japanese animation format:

Tv version: it is an animated version played on TV.

OVA: Original Video Anime, as opposed to TV, is not played on TV. Want to see, can only buy. The specific content will be introduced later.

Theater version: animated film version.

* Music:

OST: soundtrack (soundtrack album). Collect music related to animation. [ost: soundtrack]

OP: title song/theme song

Ed: Ending song

* subtitles at the beginning and end of the film:

Supervision: equal to the "director" in China.

Script: The person who writes the script is also called story composer.

This is not the same as a script. Japanese TV animation is usually adapted from comics, novels or games. Comic writers and animators are usually different (there are exceptions, such as some works by Miyazaki Hayao, and Genax often makes original animations by himself), so the word "original" comes into being. Refers to the author of the original comic book/novel. For example, the original work of cowboy BEBOP is Hajime Yatate. (About Hajime Yatate, friends who have seen "General Dream" should know this allusion, but it seems that there are still many people who don't know it at present. I will introduce it later. )

Actor: voice actor, voice actor

Staff: all members involved in production and animation (including general shrimp and millet)

Production: usually refers to the company responsible for drawing animation, because Japanese animation usually needs the cooperation of n departments/companies, and the division of labor is clear, which is a bit like assembly line operation. This word also needs everyone's attention. The production level of an animation is often influenced by the production unit. Sometimes even looking at the name of the animation company can tell whether this film is worth collecting.

* Terms in the circle: (This term seems to be used only by domestic enthusiasts, without careful investigation)

Otaku: In Japanese, it means "Imperial House". At present, the accepted meaning in China is: a subculture group that is easy to immerse itself in the fantasy world and lacks normal social life experience. In popular terms, it is a group of people who are crazy and enthusiastic about animation. For example (just to mention briefly):

For example, an otaku like Eva can recite the Chinese, Japanese and English names of each apostle, study the New Testament and the Old Testament in detail, and be familiar with the differences between Judaism, Christianity and Catholicism. Pay attention to all the activities of GAINAX ... master Freud's theory ... and become a member of a cult. ...

Wang Dao: A very popular word recently. It means "authority", "truth", "respect" and "most important". There is a group of cartoons called King's Dog. It seems to be about sun yat-sen, um ... what is king in today's society? For this website, maybe the king is ... money at present. (I really need it ~ ~)

Outbreak: Wild. Go crazy. The symptoms are usually eye discoloration and crawling. Sometimes white gas comes out of your mouth ... it depends.

Typical role ............... ……EVA initial machine ... (Everyone: Don't be partial to someone ~) By the way, if you encounter similar situations, please leave the scene quickly or prepare 200 fire extinguishers to prevent accidents. ...

BT: short for pervert.

BL: Boys' love, homosexuality.

Love That Girl

SM: ... I didn't want to talk about it at first, but I couldn't help it if someone asked me. The nature is similar to the above two items, and the related words are "queen" and "whip", which can't be more specific.

LOLI (Li Luo): In Japanese, "little girl" means/kloc-a little girl under 0/2 years old. LOLI can also be used as an adjective In the eyes of individuals, LOLI's standards can be different. If she is small and cute, she can be called LOLI, the most typical one is Xiaoji.

Zheng Tai: A word with the same attributes as Li Luo, especially/kloc-a younger brother under 0/2 years old.

PK: It turned out to be "jumping the street". You can understand its meaning literally. It originally refers to a triad ritual (throwing yourself into the street? ), now it means to fight.

Residual thoughts: What a pity. The extended word is "broken thoughts" ... you can do something similar yourself.

Shut up: shut up.

XD: This needs everyone's imagination. The first explanation: x stands for m, and I don't need to say it next. The second explanation: an emoticon. Personal understanding is "down" or "dizzy".

Mouth Hu: modal particles. Equivalent to "shit!" Anger or something. It can also be written as "mouth Gu Yue" (expansion)

KUSO: The meaning of spoof. But it can also be used to express a sigh. In animation, you can often hear the hero say this word, which is often translated as "damn it ~!" "***!"

874: Verb ... the behavior of criticizing crazily in the forum. Generally speaking, if you will be criticized by 874, you must have offended an otaku or a mental derangement. It is suggested to keep a distance from this forum and improve your own strength before going or not going at all.

Amateur/Tooth: People who have watched anime for some years (2-3 years) but actually know little. Not a derogatory term.

Daren: Watch anime at all costs, in short, the kind with strong strength.

* animation type:

SF = sci-fi sci-fi mechanical works, such as EVA.

* Short name of animation works:

Anime lovers often use abbreviations to represent their familiar works. Abbreviations are usually understandable, but some are unfamiliar to newcomers. Here are a few examples, which will be supplemented gradually in the future.

FF: You are probably most familiar with the FF (Final Fantasy) series. FF series was originally a famous game of SQUARE Company. Because it is very popular, there are many surrounding areas, such as game animation, OVA, movies and so on. but

The abbreviation of FF used recently needs to be distinguished, because the Matrix series also produced an animated short film called The Final Flight of Osiris, which is also abbreviated as FF. The director of this film is the same person as the film version of Final Fantasy (Andy Jones). No wonder they even have the same name.

M0=MACROSS zero (zero means zero, so it is represented by "0").

ROD series: There are two works produced at present, one is READ OR DIE(OVA), and the Chinese name is Thinking about Death; The other one is Reading or Dreams (TV), which is showing, but there was no D version in the past. All abbreviated as ROD.

*OVA

First of all, explain what OVA is.

OVA = original video animation = original animation video tape.

OVA occupies a very important position in the history of Japanese animation, and she can often be seen in various animation files. A work that can be regarded as OVA can only be called OVA if it has not been shown on TV or theater when it was first introduced. When a work that has been shown on TV or theater is reissued, video tape /LD/VCD, etc. It cann't be OVA The "V" in OVA also refers to all video/LD/VCD/DVD media, not just video.

* theatrical version

What is a theatrical version (animation)

The first publicity was an animation made for playing in the cinema. The production cost, investment and manpower of this kind of works are higher than those of OVA and TV animation, and the more luxurious the painter, the better. No matter in the fluency of movements or in the number of separations used, the difference between them can be clearly seen. Usually, a theatrical animation is 90 minutes, but it is not certain, and there is a big difference.

Nowadays, as long as it is a popular TV animation, there is usually a corresponding theatrical version, but the theatrical version is usually different from the original TV version in terms of stories and characters. For example, the theatrical versions of "Girl Revolution" and "Time and Space Fortress" only retain the main lines of the original stories and characters.

* Original painting

The original painting is to draw the starting and ending pictures or still pictures of the characters in the picture on paper in the form of line draft. Shadows and horizontal lines of color separation are also drawn in this step. Therefore, some people translate it into "Key-Animetor" or "Illustrator" (less used).

* Animation

The work of drawing every action in the original painting on paper at intervals specified by the mirror table. Finally, these line drawings are photocopied on celluloid sheets, and then the coloring operation can be carried out. It is also translated as "assistant"

Animator, middleman.

* paint supervision

What is the job of an animation director (key animation director)?

Modify the finished product of the original painting and animation to see whether the face of the character conforms to the character setting, whether the movement is smooth and so on. You must be able to repaint when necessary, so you must be a senior original painter and animator.

* color distribution

The task of assigning colors is called "color setting", which has different names. In English, there are color setting, color modeling, color designer, color coordinator, color key ... In addition to specifying things like "clothes should be red, pants should be black", it is more important to specify the shadows and gradient colors needed for celluloid painting, which is XXX pigment.

* Shishang

In Japanese, the original meaning is to complete and complete the manuscript, Chinese means painting, and English means painting and completion. Draw the reverse side of the celluloid piece according to the pigment number marked in each piece.

:: Sound supervision

What is the job of the audio director?

Responsible for the arrangement of the soundtrack, the preparation of the effect sound, the dubbing recording, the supervision of the mixing project and so on.

* Producer

The job of a producer.

The producer's job is mainly to plan the production schedule, arrange the daily production schedule, find the production team/production company and win over foreign investors. At the same time, he must cooperate with the executive producer to ensure that every component of the plan can be put together correctly on time.

*GK mode

The full text of "GK" is Garage Kit, which originally meant "garage components", because westerners used to use the garage as a workshop, and the GK model was born here.

The original GK model is only the works created by some players themselves, and the details of modeling vary from person to person. There is usually only one, which is the only one in the world. The material (that is, raw materials) is not necessarily, but clay, gypsum, plate and metal can be used, so the model made by ourselves or produced in small quantities is called GK. Later, because some special finished products were very pleasing, I had the idea of selling them as commodities. Selling and selling, suddenly one day, two guys took a fancy to a work at the same time, and someone began to use their crooked brains to copy the GK mode, by flipping the mode! At that time, gypsum and other materials may be used as templates to copy, but gypsum is not durable, and it may not be recognized once or twice. At present, silica gel is used as the template material of turnover mould, which is not only excellent in elasticity, but also much stronger in durability than gypsum, but it is still limited in number of copies. Basically, plastic models that can be mass-produced as long as they are not injection molded are called GK, including solid resin, hollow soft rubber, white metal (low melting point, soft lead-tin alloy), and the themes are mostly anime characters or movie characters. GK displayed by HGA is mainly cartoon characters of solid resin (the earliest source is actually industrial waste). (HB, Bastiato (thistle), Theo)

* Supervision

"Supervision" is actually written in Japanese, and English is Director, which is a common director in Chinese. The director of Japanese animation production is the key to determine the atmosphere style of the whole work, and is in charge of the rhythm of the story, the turning point of the atmosphere and so on. Even the same role setting, the same painting style and the same production team will have completely different styles because of different directors.

* role setting

The person in charge of designing the appearance of the character is called "character setting". His job is not only to let the subsequent painters know what the person to be painted looks like, but also to tell them the facial features, eyes and expressions of the character, so as to design the face of the same character from several different angles and a clear sea with closed lines different from ordinary cartoons. The design of robots, vehicles and weapons responsible for appearance are all "mechanical settings". In addition to drawing the shape of the machine, it is also necessary to mark the possible detailed structure, movement mode, openable place and so on. Unless otherwise specified, design drafts are generally clean line drafts without shadows.

* Sinario

That is, scenario in English, which means script. Write stories in pure words, including scenes, places, background sound effects, character dialogues, character movements, etc.

* Split mirror table

English is a continuous language, while Chinese is something called "mirror table". The homework in this step is the first step to truly transform the things on the paper into the pictures to be presented in the future. The person who draws the mirror table turns them into pictures in his mind according to the instructions of the script, and then draws them on paper. The purpose of drawing a mirror-dividing table is to decompose the continuous actions in the animation into units of 1 cut (1 mirror-dividing), and mark the way of moving the mirror, dialogue, special effects and so on beside it. The most important time, number of sheets, etc. It will also be written on the far right side of the stage.

* Layout

"Layout" is a relatively rare work, which is close to China's "composition" in nature, and can only be used in some drama works, such as designing multi-level backgrounds, so that each layer of background can move at different speeds, which can show a realistic sense of distance. The person who draws the layout must be aware of the existence of the camera in his mind, look at the grass and trees in the scene from the camera's point of view, and then draw these pictures in detail.

There will be this job, mainly to make up for the mirror table painted by directors who are not good at painting, and to carefully present the messy and simple pictures as the basis of the original painting, animation, background, color designation and so on. Works in Mamoru Oshii, such as Mobile Police Theater Edition, Mobile Police Theater Edition 2, Ghost in the Eggshell, etc. , are examples of extensive use of layout, characterized by "2D painting can also accurately express 3D visual effects".

* Performance

Japanese "performance" is a unique title in Japanese animation production. To put it simply, he is an assistant director, and his role in TV series is different from that in OVA and movies.

In TV series, because the director is too busy to take care of every episode, the "performance" of each episode is equivalent to the "exclusive director" of the episode. He always controls the production of the episode according to the (general) director's intention. In OVA and Movie, the position of "performance" is more like "assistant director", who understands the director's intention and helps to deal with the details of the performance work ("performance work" is the process of "transforming script words into lens pictures", which is a bit like the so-called "scene scheduling" in western movies or stage plays). His job is similar to that of producer. He must be familiar with animation language, but he doesn't have to be good at drawing (just as a director doesn't have to be good at drawing ...). So some people translate it as "co-director" and others as "assistant director" or "executive director".

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